Shirt and shirt pocket



July 26, 1927.

J. H. cr-zcmml SHIRT AND SHIRTUPOGKET Filed Nov. 16. 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented July 26, 1927.

UNITED STATES PATsn'r series.

JOHN H. CRONIN, F LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR TO Tlf-IE ENRO SHIRT COM-Y PANY, 0F LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, A CQRPOATION GF KENTUCKY.

SHIRT AND SHIRT POCKET.

Application led November 16, 1925. Serial No. 69,287.

rFile present invention is an impro"\.'e1nent in shirts, especially of the sport type, and in methods of forming pockets therein.

In the. usual construction of such shirts,

t wherein the opening is at the front, the closing flap is constituted in part by a formed tape or ribbon, usually of the saine material, secured to the bosom of the shirt and provided with button-holes for receiving the 1U buttons of the inner flap.

`When the shirt is provided with a pocket or pockets, it is usually of the patch type and on the outer face of the shirt. Such pockets and the closing iap above mentioned are in relief on the shirt bosom and mar the smooth, uniform appearance of the saine.

The subject matter of my prior application, Serial Number 735,810, filed on Septeinber 4, 1924, Patent No. LTOQOS, is a shirt wherein the closing flap forms a smooth, uninterrupted continuation of the front or bosom of the shirt, with the stitching hidden and with the free edge of the closing iiap covered by a continuation of the ff'- shirt front, the intermediate plies of the flap bring in rear of the bosom.

One of the primary objects of the present invention is to provide a pocket construction which with the exception of the pocket slit will be hidden by the shirt front. and

will be connected to the shirt by stitching, all of which is in rear of the front and hidden thereby.

In the drawings: Y

F ig. l is a perspective view of the pocket with a part of the front wall broken away.

Fig. 2 is a similar view of a part of the shirt front, showing the outer face and the first step of the method.

Fig. 3 is a similar view of a part of the shirt front, showing the second step.

Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4 4 of F 3. Figs. 5 and 6 are perspective views with parts broken away, showing successive steps and looking at the inner side or rear face of the shirt front.

ig. is a section on the line 7 7 of lig. 9.

Fig. 8 is a rear view of the pocket, show- 50 ing the final stage.

Fig. 9 is a similar view, looking at the front.

Fig. l0 is a front view, shovving` a flap for the poclret slit.

Fig. .ll is u section on the line ll-ll of rig. io.

In the present enibodinient of the invention, the shirt is of the negiigee or sport type and of any suitable or desired material. rlhe front or bosom portion thereof, indicated at l, is provided with transverse or horizontal slit 2 at one side of the closing flapnot shown. rl`he pocket, which usually but not necessarily composed of the saine material as the shirt body, consists ot patches 3 and 4 similarily shaped, placed one upon the other, and secured together' by a line of stitching 5.

The pocket is open at the top and the free top edges of the opposite walls are turned down upon the bodies of the walls in the same direction as indicated at 6 and' 7, respectively. The turned-down portions or flanges are vfor the purpose of reinforcing the top edges of the pocket walls'and to provide a finish. rlhe portion or flange S of the rear wall is outside the pocket, while the Harige 'l' of the 'front wall is inside the pocket, that is, between the Wal-ls thereof, as clearly shown in Figs. l and 2.

rEhe Wall 3 of the pocket, which is the front wall when the pocket is in place, is secured to the body just below the slit 2 for the pocket and on the outer face of theshirt, by stitching or otherwise, and a reinforcing tape or strip 8, usually but not necessarily of the same material as the shirt, is secured to the outer face of the shirt bosom, just above the slit, usually by stitching.

After the parts are so connected, as shown in Fig. 4, the pocket is inverted through the slit, as indicated in Fig. 5. The reinforcing tape is then turned through the slit, and both pockets and tape will be on the inner face of the shirt, as shown in Fig. 6.

The wall 4 of the pocket is now secured to the reinforcing tape, as indicated in Fig. 7 thus completing the formation of the pocket.

It will be noticed, particularly referring to Figs. 4, 5 and 6, that the reinforcing tape 8 is formed by doubling a. strip of material upon itself. The stitching which connects the strip to the shirt is adjacent to the raw edges of the strip, and Whenthe strip is turned inwardly through the slit, as shown in Fig. 6, the doubled edge thereof will be upward. To connect the wall 4 to the shirt, the flange, or turned-down portion. is hooked over (his doubled edge, with the llange between the body ol' the strip El und the shirt besoin, as clearly shown in llig. T. The line of stitching indicated at S) is through the well, the strip and the tlunge, as cloni-ly shown in Fig. 7

lreterubly, though not necesszirily, the ehirt is provided with a tlap on the outer luce thereol, connected niet above the s'lit und .nornuilly hiding the saune. lhis flapV muy be ot un ornanientnl contour. -lt is composed olf two euperiniposed pieces l0 :ind ll., substuntially trinngulur, und :secnred together, except along the base, by stitching. Thus, a pocket is toi-ined which is inverted be'lore it is applied to the shirt.

'lhe vbase edge ot the flap is secured between the reinforcing tope t3 und the `ehirt body, and by the saine stitching which connects the tape to the body. S shown in Figs. 5 to ll, the edges of the poelret slit are turned inward when the pocket und reinlorcing strip are turned through the shirt, providing thus a finish for the slit edges. When the pocket ilzip is turned down. an shown in Figo. l() and ll, it hides the pocket slit eonipletelj,7 and all ot the stitching which connects the flap to the shirt besoin. Il? desired, the l'lap muy be ornainented, as for instance, by the button l2.

The improved pocket and tlap cenetruction cooperates with the construction ot the closing ilap of the above mentioned application to provide u bosoin of a very pleasing appearance.

In order to provide a neat finish, and to hold the walls of the poclret close up against the shirt "iront, lines ot stitching are provided above and below the slit. These lines are very near the edges of the shirt, the one line passing through the shirt and 'lront Lesene pocket wall, the latter through the shirt front, reinforcing strip, iiap, when used, and pocket rear Wall.

"What l claim is:-

l. 'lhe method olf attachingpockets to fffhirts with invisible stitches, which conopening in the shirt, :Securing a reinforcing tupe to the Vouter lince olf the Shirt nbov. the opening,Securing one wall ot the pocket to the outer laee olf the ehirt below ihe epening, inverting the pocliet and the reii'i'liorce through the opening and securing the other wall oi the pocket to the rein torre.

rl'he method oit attaching a pocket to a lShirt with invisible stitching, which conniets in :iecining one well oi' a pocket to the outer laee of a shirt below a poel-iet slit, se-y curing a reinforcing tape, or strip, to the outer face of the shirt above the slit, und with a sl it coveringflap having one edge between the tnpe und the shirt body, with the i'iup attending away 'troni the slit, inverting the pocket through the slit, turning in the reinforcing tape, or strip, through the slit, securing the outer wall ol" the pocket to the strip, und turning down the ilap over the slit.

i3. The method oi attaching pockets to shirts with invisible stitching, which consists in forming a poclret, Aturning over the tree edges oi the pocket walls in the suine direction on the bodies of the walls, stitch ing one edge to the outer face of the shirt below the pocket slit, stitching a reinforcing tape, or strip, of the saine inateriel to the outer 'tace ot the shirt above the pocket slit, inverting the pocket through the slit, turning the reinforce through the slit, and stitching the tree edge ot the other pocket wall to the reinforce. i

Signed at Louisville in the count)v of .leitterson und Stute of Kentucky this 5th dey oit Noveniber A. D. 1925.

JOHN H. CRONN.

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